(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Todd Blonshine, CEO of Mustard Tree Instruments® addressed an audience of over 75 members of the pharmaceutical, life sciences, and affiliated market sectors in the Research Triangle Park region as the featured speaker for November’s Innovation in RTP event. In his presentation, “Drug Shortages and Recalls: Redefining Quality Control in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry with A Purpose” Blonshine discussed the challenges of quality control issues with raw materials in the drug manufacturing process and how his company is helping to alleviate the strain on manufacturers through its innovations in analytical testing instrumentation. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Sensus, a leader in intelligent solutions for gas, water, and electric utilities, has been selected by Frost & Sullivan as the Business Development Strategy Leadership of the Year Award recipient for 2009. The Sensus FlexNet™ technology is a reliable, robust, minimal infrastructure solution. FlexNet’s lean network architecture uses a powerful radio frequency to transmit information to the maximum range while also minimizing operational costs with low infrastructure requirements. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Laboratory equipment represents an elevated risk of product safety dangers. CertifiGroup has a special new program to help manufacturers, designers and equipment owners for this high-tech category. In many cases, non-certified laboratory equipment is never identified as a high risk category in the workplace. Scientists and facility owners assume the manufacturers have considered electrical and product safety merely because the equipment is often expensive. The CertifiGroup laboratory equipment evaluation team has been collecting data on the hazards for operators and facilities, and the results are startling. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) CertifiGroup, a North Carolina testing laboratory, is offering special programs for US companies who are preparing to sell products in Europe. Since the creation of the “CE marking” system, it has become more obvious over the years that this was not just a “Free trade” arrangement for the countries in the European Union. In recent years, companies shipping products to European ports have had entire shipments delayed and even returned, for not bearing the CE mark, or for missing or incorrect paperwork. With these occurrences, it is now clear that these regulations were also intended to be a trade barrier for companies outside of the EU. (more…)